Day 10 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 225 lbs. Had to travel a lot with the group yesterday, and the breakfast/lunch was heavier than expected…think I’m retaining water — I’ll be sure to drink more today and do ZBC this morning.
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Day 11 NFD but should be a FD NZ
I had one of my baking days y’day… sourdough, Xmas cake and flapjack biscuits. Oh dear! A little too much cake batter passed my lips esp EtOH soaked dried fruit with treacle… The dog and burger night was postponed till this evening. A friend is coming over at lunchtime at his invitation so I’ll have to prepare something… some days friends and food just get the better of you… Vegetable soup here I come next week…
Splendas looks like a rogue post to me…
Mr Macintosh had the fastest Westie cut y’day. He doesn’t tolerate standing around for grooming now and today it’s hairwash day. Tomorrow is the annual Westie and Scottie walk and sausage sizzle at one of our big city parks. I’m on the national committee and will need to be there early so no posting. My Monday FD can’t come soon enough!!
Cheers everyone! Have a fun weekend!
Steely resolve next week!!!
Day 11 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD
@merryapple – enjoy the westie walk/sausage sizzle tomorrow. You’re almost in the 70’s! 🎯 I reported the dodgy @splendas post.
@jaifaim – yes, I do love breakfast foods – just not at ‘breakfast time’. On the rare occasion I’ve eaten early, I’ve always been ravenous by lunchtime. And I never feel hungry first thing anyway, so it seems pointless. From what I’ve read, 3 meals per day only became popular after 1800 & the start of the Industrial Revolution. Before that it was the norm to have only two meals a day.
@stitchincarol – you’re conspicuous by your absence; I hope all is okay.
Dr Michael Mosley on mini-fasts:-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12735809/DR-MICHAEL-MOSLEY-MINI-fasts-help-ward-infection-protect-against-cancer.html
The sun’s shining again, but it’s blowing a hoolie out there today, +50 km/h winds. So apart from maybe a walk around the complex later, I’m going nowhere today.
@flourbaby – yes! Joining you on the list today. @excelsior12309 too! A rare Saturday pocket list; let’s get it done in No-Nonsense November 💪
Have a good weekend everyone 🌤 🌈
Pocket List – Day 11 🍋
@funshipfreddie
@flourbaby
@excelsior12309
Day 11 – Ireland – NFD 🚫🚶♂️✅ 🌾
Just in from a big long walk and brunch. Yum 😋
@flourbaby awww I really wish I could ignore and carry on 😇 I’ve tried but the debilitating headaches etc mean I just can’t… it is very much a case of feeling a little hard done by some of the time (when out to dinner, eating at friends, work cafeteria etc.) but it is what it is…
Splendas post reported as spam ✔️
@merryapple your bake day sounds divine! I’ve just picked up some GF flour so am going to attempt to bake something this weekend.. has been ages..
Yes @stitchincarol hope all is ok?
Aw always kudos to the weekend fasters 👍 @excelsior12309, @flourbaby and @funshipfreddie
Onward and downward
Day 12 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 71.0 kg
Sunday morning PFDS! @stitchincarol – I think I’ve got enough mojo for both of us; I wish I could email it to you. Although, mine goes up & down like a yo-yo. Much of the time it’s just sheer stubbornness & refusing to let my body get the better of me.
A new twice-yearly injection to treat hypertension:-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12738469/Millions-high-blood-pressure-patients-offered-simple-twice-year-jab-instead-daily-pills-protect-against-heart-attacks-strokes.html
Quite funny – The joy of hitting 62..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12738585/theatre-foreign-holidays-pub-getting-older-Marcus-Berkmann.html from ‘Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery’ 😂
@northgeorgia – wishing you a hassle-free FD 💪
Happy S🌞nday!
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it”. ~ Amelia Earhart
Pocket List – Day 12 🥕
@northgeorgia
Day 12 – Ireland – NFD 🚫🚶♂️✅ 🌾
No cycling today.. High winds, cold and rain but will go out for a walk – in heavy duty rain gear.
Great quite @funshipfreddie… Just Do It. 👍
@stitchincarol we all have times like this… you far less than others I would say and we miss your chatter but we’ll see you when you’re ready. 💕
Go for it today @northgeorgia 💪
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 12 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 226 lbs. Yuck. Let’s get this ride started. I’ll put up the outdoor decorations today to keep me busy.
Pocket List – Day 12 🥕
@northgeorgia
Day 12 USA/Hawaii CD
Sorry to have disappeared again. Weigh in still holding at 164. Right now I am ok with just stopping any additional gain. I am in a mental lock down but I know that is normal following major trauma. So I will do the best I can today and not worry about tomorrow.
I am using MFP most every day and keeping the eating within an 8 hour window. Haven’t been out walking but doing Coach Kim’s 30 minute recumbent stationary bike workout most everyday. She adds upper body with small weights so it’s pretty good. Certainly better than doing nothing lol.
Old friends dropping by so I must get house and myself cleaned up a bit.
Thanks to all of you for keeping this life line up and going.
Day 13 FD NZ
Monday the 13th but could be Friday the 13th…
I had a bad bad food weekend and was well out of control sampling too many sausages and baking at the BBQ… Then I came home with leftovers and continued to eat… the dragon is never far away…😬 so today is a FD and this week is a big regroup. I’m back on soup…”
@at Sounds like you’ve been having a fabulous time! I have two Westies here today. You can never have too many!😚
@funshipfreddie I fear my advancement into the 70s has just taken a big stride backwards…🤐 But I will get there💪
@maui I know how you feel when you want to disengage from the world. Just do it and then you can emerge where you are ready. Your role has changed and to just takes time to adjust. It took me two years… Sending❤️
Steely Resolve for the new week.
Pocket List
Merry🍎
Day 13 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD
@maui – good to hear from you. Sounds like you’re doing everything right?! All you need to do now is add a FD or two & you’ll be there 🎯
@merryapple – oops? My Sunday was very controlled – for a change. Except for a very tasty beef burrito at dinner time, I don’t think I did too badly. One step back, but two big steps forward today 💪
@at – 25,000 steps?! 🥴️ I think I’d need to do the opposite of fasting if I was as active as you!
“Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It’s important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.”
~ Robert Herjavek
Pocket List – Day 13 🥦
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
Day 13 – Ireland – FD 🚫🚶♂️✅ 🌾
Due to be a NFD with a work event but the wether has impacted that so no event and that means a FD ✔️
Great to hear from you @maui – I am in awe of you and your resilience. One step at a time… I hope you enjoyed the visit with friends.💕
Hi @at sounds like super fun times over there! 🤩 I hope the ballet was lovely! ⛹️
I had a fun weekend .. lots of walks and didn’t eat too badly but felt like I’d eaten all around me when it came to last evening.. maybe what I ate… must check back and need to start logging correctly again. As you say @merryapple a big regroup and a reset for me this week👍
Hopping on with you and @funshipfreddie today.
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Pocket List – Day 13 🥦
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim
Day 13-No. VA USA-FD
I would like to credit @merryapple with a new abbreviation for the list we have at the beginning of each challenge : BBFW. (“bad, bad food weekend”), because I also had a BBFW. Back we go, help me climb up onto the wagon. November has been a very rocky road!
Thoughts to you, @maui. @northgeorgia, did you actually get some holiday decorations up? I salute your holiday spirit!
I am joining the pocket list:
@merryapple
@funshipfreddie
@excelsior12309
Day 13 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 223 lbs. OK progress is slow, but I’m back on track. Going for a FD500 today. Lunches are part of the programs on Tuesday and Wednesday, but should be relatively light. Then I’ll do another FD on Thursday. @excelsior12309 Yep! I got all my decorations up *whew*
I am joining the pocket list:
@merryapple
@funshipfreddie
@excelsior12309
@northgeorgia
Just combining today’s pocket list to keep the focus👍
Pocket List Day 13 🥦
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
@excelsior12309
@northgeorgia
@jaifaim
Day 13, London, UK, FD
I’ve been MIA for the weekend and late on parade today due to nightmare laptop issues!! It DIED on Saturday morning and I had to attend a remote training course today (& tomorrow) so I spent Saturday & Sunday trying to organize a replacement laptop to be couriered from head office ………………. Shockingly difficult on a weekend!!! It arrived this morning at 7:30am, thankfully fully loaded & ready for Zooming at 8am!!!……………… The stress!!!! Anyway, Day 11 FD was a success, I think I knew I was on that pocket list, maybe ESP or wishful thinking!!😁😁
Catching up on posts is making me a little anxious. Truly there shouldn’t be any remorse in enjoying fun times with friends which no doubt includes food & vino!! No guilt in testing or tasting what we cook with love!! No distress for not quite achieving what was planned!! No guilt in being absent, for life taking over and generally finding the clock goes that little bit faster year after year (day after day in my case!)!!! We’ve all been there, done that!! This 5:2 malarky works and it’s really forgiving; as long as a week off doesn’t turn into a month of EFS days, then you’re good!!! Speaking from experience, the guilt I felt at not staying on plan after maybe a month, led to me throwing in the towel and here I am…………………… back three years later, unfortunately, back where I started😩😩😩!! I have to remember to keep some perspective, 1 dodgy week doe NOT a disaster make!!!! The wagon awaits!!!
Pocket List Day 13 🥦
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
@excelsior12309
@northgeorgia
@jaifaim
@flourbaby
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”
— James N. Watkins
Day 14 FD again 82.7kg NZ
@flourbaby I agree with everything thing you write. For me there is a difference between eating a good quality overly large meal with friends versus sitting pointlessly eating my way through a whole load of delicious biscuits like there’s no tomorrow. What I can do is regroup and get back on the wagon using FDs as a means to reset. I could keep this to myself or as @jaifaim says, declare it for accountability in our safe space and put it behind me. Now I’ve declared it and done my weekly weigh in albeit a day late, I’m feeling much better and have my mojo back😃!!
Here’s to BANNING GUILT!!
Pocket List
Merry🍎
Day 14 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 70.8 kg
@merryapple – good to hear you’ve got your mojo back! 💪 Maybe a little guilt isn’t so bad though? Or, maybe guilt isn’t the right word. Remorse? Is that the same thing? Not sure about that. Regret? Whatever it is, maybe we need a little of it to help us get back on the wagon after we’ve strayed. But I agree, looking back & dwelling on it too much is wasted energy & it’s better to focus only on today. B2B FDs ?! Go for it 🎯
@flourbaby – I love the ‘River’ quote 😍
Not all UPFs are bad for us; this week anyway..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12744029/Proof-not-ultraprocessed-foods-bad-Ready-meals-vegan-substitutes-cereals-DONT-cause-cancer-diabetes-huge-study-claims.html
Busy busy…
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Day 14 – Ireland – CD🚫🚶♂️✅ 🌾
Hi everyone. Less than stellar FD but not too bad.., was going so so well until about 17h30 with just bovril and tea and then needed some food and some crunch so ate some lentil crisps… and then a healthy dinner (pork and turnip) but still managed to stay within about 700 I’d say..
Amen to what you say @merryapple! Let there be no guilt and there is probably a good word for when we have a little binge but it is better not to dwell… I’m not sure which is the best word @funshipfreddie but I wonder is there a positive word for when we veer off course? How about a little swerve?
We are all doing really well to even be here 🤩
@at yoga by candlelight sounds really lovely! So glad you had a lovely time at the ballet. I love Don Quixote – such fun!
@flourbaby there should be no remorse for time spent with loved ones and particularly now for you, you need to have times when you can just enjoy those people around you and then have a focused day or two later in the week. 💕💕
I understand the anxiety though and it’s easier said than done to say “don’t feel it”. But it is such a safe supportive place here 💕
Ok better dash… feeling very tired and my focus is a bit shot today so have to work hard to apply myself.
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 14 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 225 lbs. Yesterday’s FD was aborted and turned into OMAD. I left work a few minutes early not only with a headache but with some nausea. That was highly unusual. With the nausea, I knew I had to terminate the plan. I’m surprised I gained 2 lbs from it all, but maybe the weight will remain stable through Thursday, my next planned FD. I had a lot of decongestion going on early this morning, so I may have still had some lingering symptoms I was unaware of.
Day 14, London, UK, FD
I’m with you @merryapple in more ways than one, as I too am doing a B2B!!!💪🏽💪🏽This training course I’m on helps as I’m too busy revising in my breaks to have anything other than a peppermint tea!
I’m working hard to rebuild my fasting muscle!!! Trying to keep a grip of the wagon and not feel sorry for myself, let alone deprived! As I said before, sometimes I think I could fast every day, other days………😩😩😩😩!! So it’s one day at a time for me, and luckily, today is a good day and my fasting mojo is still here!!
My very short break is almost over, so…………………………
Keep the faith & carry on!!!!
No idea who said it, but …………………………………….
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
Pocket List
@merry🍎
@flourbaby
Day 15 NFD 82.1kg NZ
😁Happy Daze are here again!
@funshipfreddie Yes – words like guilt and anxiety can be and are motivating but in big doses can also be overwhelming… Remorse, regret… rather sad sacky…
Misstep?? There’s an old tv ad here that was really popular of a Hunterway (big barky) farm dog running after and jumping up on the tray (read wagon) of a moving farm truck. He misses and lands spread eagled in a big puddle of mud. The camera zooms in on his head and he says “Bugger!”. That’s my pick – B***er!!
@northgeorgia Take care and REST UP!
@flourbaby I often plan jobs on FDs for distraction therapy. I have never eaten so little in my life as I have this last 10 months. I figure when I cross the finish line in 15kg+- time I’ll be able to stabilise using FDs but I know that’s not easy either… My only consolation is that I would do well in a famine…🙁
@stitchincarol Sending hugs
Carpe Diem!
Day 15 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD
@flourbaby – “All things are difficult before they are easy.” Another good quote, & it was by Thomas Fuller, an 18th century African slave & mathematician, known as the Virginia Calculator. He could mentally calculate, e.g. how many seconds there are in a year & a half?! 🤯
@merryapple – that’s one clever talking dog! 😅
@jaifaim – ‘little swerve’ sounds good for when we veer off course. Or ‘hiccup’? Whatever we call them, may they be few & far between.
Article re the benefits of having an ‘eating window’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12747009/Eating-9am-7pm-make-happier-hungry-energetic-Experts-hail-health-benefits-fasting-14-hours-day.html
I can’t believe we’re mid-way through November already?!
Happy Hump Day! 🐫
Day 15 – Ireland – CD🚫🚶♂️✅ 🌾
@funshipfreddie as you say.. gosh – half way through this month… it’s shocking how fast time is going..
I’m finding it tough to shift the holiday lbs – very definitely not a case of EOEO but then who am I kidding? It was two months of fun so I’m going to aim to get back to the top of my maintenance zone in the next month but if not I will be easy on myself and it will be my main project for January 2024. No use of the F word here.
We are all winners. 🤩
@flourbaby I’m having to work hard here too – I think a lot are in the same boat – poca a poca 👍
Today was to be a FD but family dinner tonight at a local Italian who offer GF pasta and I’m very much looking forward to it. Will aim for a OMAD.
@merryapple great to see the big smile 😀. You are back in the zone!
@northgeorgia sorry to hear about the headache and nausea – hope it improved… I felt “off” yesterday – just not quite right but better today. Hope you do too!
Hi to everyone else out there 👋
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 15, London, UK, NFD
Well I’m back in the office and there’s a selection of cakes!!!🙄 Someone is a year older and has made it their mission to fatten their colleagues!! I took a slice of millionaire’s shortbread which is in my desk drawer making my teeth itch from a distance!!! I WILL eat it, it’s a NFD after all, but if it derails me or makes tomorrow’s FD a struggle, my lesson will have been learnt the hard way!!!! I’m aiming to swerve the hiccups without buggering it up!!!😁
Yesterday’s training course and newly discovered FD meal (Tuna with cauliflower rice & frozen peas) was easier than expected. @funshipfreddie, your reminder about the satiating effects of protein means my FDs don’t need quite as much willpower …………….. at the moment!🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
If there’s anyone thinking about resetting for the 2nd half of the month……………………. Let’s get to it, there’s no time to waste!!!💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
@funshipfreddie, I do love a good quote☺………………………
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Confucius
Day 15-No. VA USA-FD 800
I am being realistic about doing a complete fast day 500. But yesterday I did pretty well and am now 1 # less; however, this pound has been coming and going for quite a while!
I think since Thanksgiving is coming up next Thursday, it behooves me to control things quite a bit over the next week. I like our traditional foods, but I am not a massive eater; it is just that at my age, every little bit over the needed calories just gloms onto me and won’t let go!!!
Second half of November, here we come! Hold onto the wagon!
Day 15 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
Okay, I’m back. I’ve been struggling to figure out how to explain anything to you all, and it’s too long a story to try to do anything but sum it up.
I’ve not been doing well for any of November–and, really, not for a year. This is my favorite time of year to cook and to eat with abandon because there are so many yummy traditions that I love. And I finally hit rock bottom–well, almost–and just had to chuck it all and give up.
And I did. I ate what I wanted. I had Chili Cheese Fritos with my Turkey on Rye sandwich (it was our church’s turkey supper last Saturday where we serve 600 meals, and I have leftover turkey in the fridge). I even had beer with it, even though it was only lunch. Then I had beer with supper. And made my favorite cake in the world, Fresh Apple Cake, and ate a fifth of it.
You get the idea.
When I hit bottom was when I accepted that eating whatever I wanted was only making my inner two-year-old happy; my body was actually quite miserable with the bloated belly, and my eyes were NOT happy to see the belly I was creating. Nor my puffy face.
The truth is that I love to eat with abandon, but I do not like the results of eating with abandon, and pretending I can eat that way without paying the price was a truth I had to experience again for it to truly sink in.
It didn’t help that I weighed 163.4 yesterday morning. Yup.
I also realized that I’d been using the forum as a crutch: “See, I’ve posted, said what I was going to do, so I’m succeeding at this 5:2 thing!” I’d put my halo on and go about the day feeling noble. And then I’d eat too much, feel guilty, and start the whole thing over the next morning. I knew I had to embrace this for ME and not just go through the motions of posting, pretending it was actually succeeding and meant something.
So I water fasted yesterday, and was astonished that it was just about easy. Wasn’t, but almost was. And this morning, I was down to 158.6–that’s 4.8 lbs down. So a bunch of that weight was just bulk. But, to be down to 158.6? A month ago, that was what I weighed before a WFD, so I clearly have gained.
There’s more to the story, but that’s the basic outline. One thing I discovered with all my thinking is that I used to find joy in anticipating the results of 5:2, but I’ve been focused on the process and not paying any real attention to the results; I’m wondering if that’s a huge part of why I’ve not been succeeding, is because I’ve not had the results tantalizing me.
So, I’ve promised myself to focus more on the joy of the results as well as the joy of the process, because I sure didn’t feel good when I was eating with abandon.
Thanks to those of you who called out to me; it warmed my heart even as I was aching at the frustration of not being 140lbs, LOL!
Oh, and we caught a third mouse, LOL!!!
Second post
Just checking in ahead of dinner out to keep some little bit of focus… but… I just want to say… who doesn’t want to eat with abandon and enjoy all the things we love ❤️? Very few people …
I won’t list the things I love and miss but maybe it’s no harm to do it from time to time to realise that it has consequences now where it didn’t before…
I’m in that zone too but our future “us” will thank us for the choices we make today..💕💕
💪
Day 16 FD NZ 82.8kg😬
Bug***!! The weekend has caught up with me… But I’ve done the reset and onward and downward we go again!
@stitchincarol I feel for you. I only have Mr Mac to cater for now on a daily basis and we all know how delicious dog food is🤣. My life is a lot quieter now and I haven’t done much entertaining. With your busy professional and social schedule I imagine it is difficult to get into any sort of rhythm. It’s about uncovering a path that works for you and I can tell you are on that path. Take care 😘
@jaifaim Softly softly catchy monkey!!
@excelsior12309 I’m in your wagon too!
@flourbaby Thank you Confucius! There’s a reason it’s called millionaires shortbread by the Scots… Enjoy every bite😁
@funshipfreddie I hadn’t really thought about an eating window but I do tend to not eat after dinner. It stops reflux!
Take heart everyone!
Pocket List
Merry🍎
Day 16 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – FD
Good fun at the line-dancing yesterday; I’m finally getting there! 🕺Some of the steps that baffled me a few months ago – I’m now thinking – why did I ever struggle with that?! Just in time, cos apparently we’re putting on a little show for some of the frail-care residents next month 😱
@stitchincarol – you’re back! Great to hear from you. And to shift almost 5 lb overnight?! Still 5 & a half weeks til Christmas; you’re not that far from your goal. When you see what some people are up against, needing to lose maybe 40, 50 or more lbs. Struggling to just get dressed everyday, getting out of breath just walking to the car. I inadvertently get a wake-up call every time I go to a mall here. I see plenty of people who’ve decided they like eating with abandon. And it’s clear they do, every day, at every meal. At some stage they’ve given up. I feel bad for them. I try not to stare. But it horrifies me. And then I think, ‘an extra FD this week wouldn’t kill me…?’.
@merryapple – I had to Google that ‘softly, softly…’ I’m sure I’ve heard it before, but I couldn’t remember what it meant 😅
Let’s get this done, Thursday fasters. It’s just food, right? 🤪
Pocket List – Day 16 🥗
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice”. ~ Wayne Dyer
Day 17 – Ireland – FD 🚫🚶♂️✅ 🌾
Lovely dinner, lovely chats and not a late night which is great as I was up very early.
@stitchincarol It was great to come on and see your post last night describing the struggles we all have – you are never alone.
Incredible to think a WFD can shift so much weight.. bravo to you!!! I’m not good at them and certainly when I did do one once only I think there was no dramatic drop but am inspired to try again soon. Just to sort of cleanse my system too – would be good.
A lot of chat over dinner about health, food etc but funny how many people just don’t see the benefits of this WOL even if it’s sporadic for some of us.
Yes @merryapple softly we go…. downward for the rest of this month 👋
@funshipfreddie great to hear you’re becoming a dancer! My friend has actually just taken up line dancing here in a little town the country and is loving it 💃🏻
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Pocket List – Day 16 🥗
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim
Day 16, London, UK, FD
I was exhausted last night (millionaires 5000calories shortbread???…..😋) and my FD planning went out the window😒, I’m trying to get to OMAD in general, but on a FD, for some reason I think I need some small snack/meal at 2 or 3pm. Usually just some cucumber & baby plum tomatoes with some form of protein – a babybel, ½ tin of tuna or as today, a slice of crustless quiche. There was a smidgen of panic before I remembered the quiche, so I just grabbed it and a handful of tomatoes and a bit of of cucumber. I’ve soup for dinner, but I really need to plan the night before to avoid succumbing to that afternoon wave of hunger and devouring the ever present biscuits in the office kitchen!!🙏🏽
@stitchincarol, I’m glad you’ve rejoined the fold!! I can only speak for myself, but I’m here BECAUSE I love to eat with abandon😋!! For a few months before I abandoned this group a few years ago, I was posting, enjoying catching up on updates from around the globe, fasting?………….. Not exactly!!! Sometimes we self sabotage & throw ourselves off the wagon, but the most important thing is to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and get back on, if it’s left you in the dirt it may take a little time to catch up to it but you will!!! The lightbulb went on when you wrote about what was your key to success ……………“I used to find joy in anticipating the results of 5:2”. This completely resonates with me!!! I have to get back to this too!! If I stick with this (properly) until the end of November, I WILL see results, these results WILL bring me joy, as will anticipating future results!!! I’m with you, so I’ll be focussing on the joy of results too!!🥰
@funshipfreddie, I see some very very young people who obviously need some help controlling their eating and I hate to think of their future. As someone once said, we’re sleepwalking into obesity!!! Good luck with your show (the elderly can be brutal critics!!!)🤣🤣, I bet you wish you were part of the entertainment on board those cruise ships!!!
My quote of the day (despite the author!) is apt for a few of us here …………………………..
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher
Pocket List – Day 16 🥗
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim
@flourbaby
Day 16 – USA/GA – FD
Weigh-in: 226 lbs. Heaviest Thursday weigh-in in two years…yuck. I had a lot of interruptions this month, and will continue to have them, but I’m staying the course. Today will be a FD500. @stitchincarol Our epiphany is coming at a horrible time of the year, but I think even through the feast days, we can do this. I really don’t know how we can turn down the chocolates and other comforts at this time of year, or even regulate them to a very small treat once a week. But there has to be a way to get out of this swamp. I think I need to start again with eating satisfying home-cooked meals with no space for sugar and processed junk. I did notice this year that when I had a home-cooked meal prepared by myself or family members at home, I tended to eat less or nothing at all for lunch since I had something to look forward to. Then I would have my fill at supper time, and didn’t want to keep snacking on after the meal — and I lost weight on 5:2. But the more nasty stuff I would eat on NFDs, I’d just get hungry again and the more I’d lose control and snack and eat more nasty stuff; I think that’s how the weight has climbed. I don’t know if it is as simple as that, but I’m thinking it’s what’s happening in my case.
If I’m going to have a big meal to look forward to in the evening, I can skip lunch and be ok, and vice versa. Time for me to get back to that….
Pocket List – Day 16 🥗
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim
@flourbaby
@northgeorgia
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Pocket List – Day 16 🥗
@merry🍎
@funshipfreddie
@jaifaim
@flourbaby
@northgeorgia
@stitchincarol – WFD
Day 17 NFD NZ 81.8kg
Crazy how your body sorts itself out with a little help from you… All will be OK if you do the right thing and have faith and trust after falling off the wagon into the big mud puddle.
@northgeorgia, @stitchincarol, @flourbaby, @at, @jaifaim, @excelsior12309, @funshipfreddie, me myself and I and anyone else – it might not be easy but it’s doable step-by-step and day-by-day. Keep the faith and keep going.
We need to make sure we’re supplying our bodies with good quality food in the right proportion. Eating too much good food does no harm but eating too much bad (read industrialised) food has no benefit. Enjoy the FDs, commit to that window of eating and everything will fall into place over time as we all know. To my fellow fasters, be happy and proud of all our achievements thus far😘 As @jaifaim always signs off, We rise by lifting others. In other words we’re in it together and like Mr Nike says, Just Do It!
KIA KAHA (Stay Strong) everyone 💪💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼💪🏻
Day 17 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – NFD 71.0
Successful FD, followed by a good 8 hour snooze. but the wiggle room is eluding me. I just need to be a bit stricter on NFDs.
@northgeorgia – even I know Thanksgiving is NEXT week! Surprise indeed 🤣
@flourbaby – ‘sleepwalking into obesity’ – an interesting phrase. Like people don’t really know what they’re doing. Everyone’s wearing a blindfold whilst they’re shovelling down Big Macs & then suddenly they can’t squeeze into those size xxx jeans anymore 🤔
Maybe we all need to read this, especially at this time of year… 🤮
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12758319/can-stomach-explode-eating-gastrointestinal-perforation.html
Anyway, I’ve got a couple of hours of Spanish listening to do before I head off to ‘Indulge’ for my lunch date
Happy Fri-yay y’all! 🍹
Day 17 – Ireland – CD🚫🚶♂️✅ 🌾
157.5
Hi everyone!
I’m relieved to see the same number above as this day last week ⭐️ as I had three fun nights and have been feeling really puffy this week so while I’m aiming to get back to my maintenance range I know I’m trying to do the right things … have the fun nights and then apply myself.. that’s all we can do and we need fun times too otherwise what’s the point.
As we say… at least we know what to do, we try to do that most of the time and we will get there.
It’s quiet here now… I know for me that impending celebratory times like holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving for the US 🇺🇸 gang can bring their own stresses/challenges and can be an emotional and pressured time so I hope everyone is ok…
💕💕
Onward and downward ⬇️
We rise by lifting others 💕
Day 17 – USA/GA – NFD
Weigh-in: 227 lbs. What a wreck. But I have to remember that between the COVID pause, the unexpected events this week, and Thanksgiving coming up ( @funshipfreddie Yeah, but this was the last day of classes before the break and with 50 international students looking to you as the leader with all the spread they brought in, they expect you to try and like everything. November has been a “eat because it’s socially mandated” month — gak!), I haven’t fasted but once in the past two weeks. Just ridiculously chaotic. I’m also getting hooked on sugar again, so I need to wean myself away (and how to do that during the holiday period?). I’m getting dangerously close to the 230s, so I definitely need to get going.
Day 17 – Rural Nebraska, USA – NFD
Yesterday’s WF went fine, and I’m down another pound+ to 157.4. That makes me very sad (that I’m DOWN to 157.4), but it’s certainly far lovelier than those several days when I was above 160! This has been a busy week, mostly because we’re hosting a missionary and her mom on Saturday night, so the basement bedroom and the ground floor guest bedroom both need tidying, cleaning, and freshly washed sheets put on the bed–the PATH to the basement bedroom was also a disaster and still has an hour of clutter I’m wanting to tidy. The problem is this house has too little storage and nearly none where you can just have a clutter and it’s normal, like a basement: our basement is all finished. I never can figure out if I struggle so because the house has too little storage or because I have too much stuff. 😏 Today will be filled with a long to-do list, tomorrow is an all-day meeting, Sunday is church and brunch with our guests, and then we’re off to Omaha for a performance of Handel’s Messiah, a tradition I almost never miss. I’ve sung those choruses and several of the solos, and accompanied all of it on the piano many years, so I can sing every last one, although I do try to keep silent as I’m mouthing the words, LOL!
But, wouldn’t you think that, with a schedule like that, I’d have a built-in certainty of controlled eating? Nah, because each day has a social meal included, and several have two. So, it’ll be up to my will- and won’t-power, because I will NOT go back down to the dark abyss I was in last week. I may weigh more than I want, but my stomach is empty and that feels glorious, so I’m celebrating the small steps.
And, by the way, while I was in that dark abyss, I deeply appreciated your ongoing comments, @funshipfreddie, @merryapple, and @jaifaim. They didn’t pull me out of that dark hole, but they sure made me feel loved, and that’s no small thing when a path is looking so horribly bleak.
@flourbaby You’ve had an equally challenging path the last couple of weeks, haven’t you? I’m so glad your mojo still is present and strong!
@northgeorgia I imagine the unspoken truth you’ve been struggling with is that this is the first Thanksgiving/Christmas after losing your dad. It must be tempting to abandon all semblance of control as your nurse your grief. We’re here to cheer you on as you work to find a path of control in the middle of all the abundance you’ll be encountering. It would make your dad proud to see how you are persevering!
Okay, my focus has abandoned me and is thinking about that long list I need to accomplish, so I’ll give up responding to each of you.
Have a grand one, everyone!
Day 17, London, UK, NFD
Late on parade again!!! I get bogged down with nonsense (the work I get paid to do🤣) and forget to post!!
Anyway, yesterday’s FD was ok, not the stellar efforts of Monday or Tuesday, but I’m banking it as a ‘mediocre spare FD’, catchy right?
‘Tis the season for treats & comfort and all that makes us happy, unfortunately we need to reprogram our mindset to understand those treats are NOT treats, they really DON’T offer comfort and as for making us happy, I for one feel pretty cr*p after I’ve indulged in something that appeared to give me comfort & joy at the time I shovelled it down!!! Moderation is not in my vocabulary, so I HAVE to go for abstinence. I had an issue with nicotine which is very similar to my issue with carbs, addiction is addiction and no amount of self control or moderation is going to help, for me there are the carbs which send me spiralling down into greater & greater quantities – they cannot exist for me whilst I’m on this journey; and there are others (the ones I’m not in love with😁) which I can have, enjoy, then reluctantly put them away until another NFD. None of this is easy, but I’m re-learning to look forward to the hunger of a FD, to that empty feeling, to swerving the biscuit & sweetie aisle in the supermarket with righteous indignation and most of all to fitting into the 100’s of pounds worth of new clothes I bought when I was 50lbs lighter😬😬😬……………. Now that’s incentive enough!!!!
Keep the faith folks, that pizza, biscuit, sweet treat (poison) will be there when you get to your goal!!!! …………….. but you might not want it then!!! Now there’s something to look forward to!!!
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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@flourbaby I was taking a break when your post popped up, and all I can say is, “Amen, sister!” I read your words three times, working at internalizing them. Hunger IS a lovely thing, isn’t it? Lucky us!
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@funshipfreddie Is that an okay use of “lucky”?? I’m undecided…
Day 18 NFD NZ
I have the same dilemma @stitchincarol – a 106 year old house with no storage with stuff everywhere. I have two friends from my California days coming to visit on Sunday and am about to embark on a big tidy up… plus cooking!
I have two sorts of stuff that I’m trying to rationalise – passive collections of display items (ceramics, glass, art, historic and family items etc) then there’s all my art gear and textiles (sewing, spinning – 5 spinning wheels, wool fleeces etc). And the garden shed and the garage. Not to mention DH’s room. Whew!! At least I have sorted through my kitchen!! I have started on my clothes because some are too loose so I’ll donate them. I never want to be that size again!
@flourbaby I have the same amount as you to lose to get to my goal of under 70kg. If I want to get to my mid BMI range I need to add another 5kg to the total… I’ve done the first 10kgs and am just on to the second… We can do this!! I have too many pairs of Church’s shoes – at least I can wear them no matter what my weight is🤣
@funshipfreddie What a topic… exploding stomachs!
I imagine you’ll be quite a smooth line dancer now you’ve sorted your feet out! Do you have a cowboy 🤠 yet? I do! And a black satin shirt with turquoise tassels and grey boots. It was the 1980s…
@jaifaim Yup! What’s the point of being gorgeous and no fun in our lives!
Cheers everyone!
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